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Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear

Farhad is a typical student, twenty-one years old, interested in wine, women, and poetry, and negligent of the religious conservatism of his grandfather. But he lives in Kabul in 1979, and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever. One night Farhad goes out drinking with a friend who is about to flee to Pakistan, and is brutally abused by a group soldiers. A few hours later he slowly regains consciousness in an unfamiliar house, beaten and confused, and thinks at first that he is dead. A strange and beautiful woman has dragged him into her home for safekeeping, and slowly Farhad begins to feel a forbidden love for her'a love that embodies an angry compassion for the suffering of Afghanistan's women. As his mind sifts through its memories, fears, and hallucinations, and the outlines of reality start to harden, he realizes that, if he is to escape the soldiers who wish to finish the job they started, he must leave everything he loves behind and find a way to get to Pakistan. Rahimi uses his tight, spare prose to send the reader deep into the fractured mind and emotions of a country caught between religion and the political machinations of the world's superpowers.

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  • "Mille maisons du rêve et de la terreur"

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  • "Farhad is a typical student, twenty-one years old, interested in wine, women, and poetry, and negligent of the religious conservatism of his grandfather. But he lives in Kabul in 1979, and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever. One night Farhad goes out drinking with a friend who is about to flee to Pakistan, and is brutally abused by a group soldiers. A few hours later he slowly regains consciousness in an unfamiliar house, beaten and confused, and thinks at first that he is dead. A strange and beautiful woman has dragged him into her home for safekeeping, and slowly Farhad begins to feel a forbidden love for her'a love that embodies an angry compassion for the suffering of Afghanistan's women. As his mind sifts through its memories, fears, and hallucinations, and the outlines of reality start to harden, he realizes that, if he is to escape the soldiers who wish to finish the job they started, he must leave everything he loves behind and find a way to get to Pakistan. Rahimi uses his tight, spare prose to send the reader deep into the fractured mind and emotions of a country caught between religion and the political machinations of the world's superpowers."@en
  • "Set in Kabul just before the Soviet invasion of December 1979, this extraordinary book is both the story of a student in fear for his life, and the story of Afghanistan - a beautiful, wounded country torn apart by religion and politics. Its action takes place over just two nights; its events are triggered by the random persecution of a young man as he makes his way home one evening, a little drunk, and is set upon by soldiers. Beaten to a pulp, Farhad is dragged by a strange woman into her house where he spends the night half believing he has died and is suffering the deserved punishment of an infidel. Yet as the reality of his situation starts to assert itself and he learns the terrible story of the woman who harbours him, he begins to feel an impossible and forbidden love for her - a love that embodies an angry compassion for the suffering of Afghanistan's women, and the yearning for a lost home." "A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear is a novel of interiors. It unfolds almost entirely within the confines of a house, a mosque and a mind. As Rahimi leads us through his claustrophobic labyrinth - as maze-like as the patterns on an Afghan carpet - he takes us ever deeper into the soul and imagination of his country."
  • "Iarhad lives in Kabul in 1979, and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Francouzské romány"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "French fiction"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"

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  • "Hizār khānah-i khvāb va ikhtināq"
  • "Tisíc domů snu a hrůzy"
  • "Mille maisons du rêve et de la terreur"
  • "Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear"@en
  • "Les mille maisons du rêve et de la terreur : roman"
  • "Hazār khānah-i khvāb va ikhtināq"
  • "هزار خانه‌ى خواب و اختناق : رمان"
  • "A thousand rooms of dream and fear a novel"
  • "هزار خانه خواب و اختناق"
  • "A thousand rooms of dream and fear"
  • "A thousand rooms of dream and fear"@en
  • "Les mille maisons du rêve et de la terreur"
  • "Hazār khānah-yi khvāb va ikhtināq : rumān"

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